Human-water systems & surprises

HILAM: a spatially consistent framework for bidirectional hydroeconomic land-use modelling

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We present a novel methodology to scale up behavioral changes among heterogeneous individuals regarding energy choices while tracing their macroeconomic and cross-sectoral impacts...

Farmers’ Drought Risk Perception

This study investigates and compares the contribution of objective and subjective factors in explaining farmers’ drought risk perception by means of survey data analysis which collected data on risk perceptions, farm characteristics, and various other personality traits in the southwest Netherlands.

Coping with drought risk

In the perspective of increasing droughts risks because of climate change, adaptation is key to decrease farmer’s vulnerability and to secure the agricultural sector’s performance at the aggregate level. Using the results of a recent survey, we explore farmers’ adaptive behaviour to drought in the south-west Netherlands.

Drivers of urban resilience to climate change in the USA

This study explores several private adaptation responses to flood risk, that are driven by various behavioral triggers. We conducted a survey among households in hazard-prone areas in eight coastal states in the USA to examine the decision to retreat from flood zones.

Human-water systems & surprises

Human-water systems & surprises

The research team will endogenize human agency in human-water systems research and modeling. To this end, we will calibrate cutting edge water system models in the three labs and interconnect them with the novel human system model developed previously via two-way feedback protocols.

This will allow us to capture the complexity of coupled human-water systems, represented by nonlinearities, behavioral biases, and interdependencies, and to forecast and track the causal relationships driving the emergence of adaptation surprises, as well as their impacts.